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Motorcycle Quotations and Sayings

Like any group of likeminded people, we have our own quotes and sayings. They can be what you will find in one of the many discussion forums, in books & magazines, t-shirts or on a bumper sticker. But wherever you find the saying, more often than not, the saying makes sense. There’s usually a lot of truth behind them.

One of the most popular sayings is “Four wheels move the body, two wheels move the soul”. And as will be the case with most quotations, the author is unknown. It’s just a term that grew. But in a simple phrase, the author summed up what riding a motorcycle is all about. Another one pitting cars (cages) against motorcycles is “only animals belong in cages” from an unknown author.

About the ride

If we do want a quotation from a known author, how about “faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death”. That quotation sums up what often happens when riding. The author was none other than famous book author Hunter Thompson. On the same term, but from the other side of the coin comes this saying from an unknown author “never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly”., or how about “if you ride like there’s no tomorrow, there won’t be”, also from an unknown source.

Another beautiful one is “it’s not the destination, it’s the journey”.

About bikers

Another famous one with an unknown author is “only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window”. And I always thought it was because a dog couldn’t stand the smell of the humans in the car 😉 How about this one about bikers “you don’t stop riding because you get old, you get old because you stop riding” (unknown author). Another saying which is derived from the aviation industry is “there are drunks bikers, there are old bikers, but there are NO old drunk bikers”.

The difference between old and young bikers can be summed up with “young riders pick a destination and go, old riders pick a direction and go”.

About our gear

From an unknown author comes one about our leathers: “people are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs”.

A quotation that mentions two of the most used items for a biker “it it moves and it shouldn’t, use duct tape, it if doesn’t move and should, use WD-40”.

About our motorcycles

Other very popular sayings are “keep the paint up, and the rubber down”, or just “keep the rubber down”, or “keep the shiny side up”, all from unknown authors. Another one you’ll see often enough from an unknown is “work to ride and ride to work” (or “live to ride, ride to live”). In the same category, that of riding to work, comes this one, also from an unknown “life is too short from traffic”.

As we all know, motorcycles sometimes leak oil, but according to this unknown author “bikes don’t leak oil, they mark their territory”. Another saying that is often a hot debate issue is “loud pipes save lives”.

This is only a very small sample of all the sayings and quotations you can find in the motorcycle world. There are hundreds of them. But they are all enjoyable. We’ll part with the last one, a safety quotation from unknown source “sweat wipes off, road rash doesn’t”.